A double EP from 2 different artists – a kinda nice idea. L J and Frisco Fresh have joined forces to bring you ‘Hot Peppa’ and ‘Fresh as F**k’.L J does his thing first with the ever-evolving guitar-led ‘Warming Up’ - a great rap track that would only benefit from a more vivacious and imaginative chorus. He closes his bit with the excellent (and also guitar-y) ‘Janglish Boy’ – t
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Bonafide Magazine "is putting on an evening of underground Hip Hop entertainment at the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival. Inspired by a conversation with multi-media/events organiser guru Liz Ainge , earlier this year we approached the organisers to see if we could put on a night and for their sins they accepted.After much dithering we plumped to show the excellent Upper Playground/Walrus...
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Most hardcorest producer from the UK – probably Endemic. One of the UK’s most legendary but underrated MCs – definitely Cappo. They’ve got together to create the ‘Needle Drop EP’ on No Cure Records.Cappo goes solo over Endemics gritty, orchestral, solid and sometimes soulful boom bap beats on 3 tracks – ‘Intro’, ‘Crumbs’ and the title track. With strictly lyrical raps Cappo p
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Real lyrics from Steg G ("There's no fans anymore, everybody's selling it) over a banging, semi-futuristic beat from Scotland's Steg G ("This production here's a powercut...This is what Hip Hop's supposed to sound like"). Look out for the album 'Vulgar Eloquence' coming out very soon on Powercut Productions.
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Scotland are coming thick and fast now with Hip Hop releases and if you want to keep more up to date than I can possibly keep you then I'd totally recommend that you get over to the Scotland Stand-Up blog.Madhat McGore, is as his name might suggest, one of Scotland's gullier rappers - a product of his enviroment maybe - Scotland's not all Lochs, castles and glens you know. Tracks like 'Young Ma...
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I'm back with more!Kulez has dropped this free download featuring the menacing 'Creeep' and the hyperactive 'Bo!' on which he flips some skateboarding vocabulary. Download it here.Mr. B rips up an old skool beat on his free download 'Step Up To It (Mr. Brown)' which can be downloaded at Bandcamp. James Brown gets sampled one more time whilst Mr. B makes himself known. Check the video here.Wiza...
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Don’t know about life in Leeds? Well, Matter and Prys are willing to be your tour guides for half an hour. Their debut EP is entitled ‘Literary Vices’ - a clue to the type of intelligence behind the lyrics of Verbal Contact.Opener ‘First Impressions’ pulls no punches as the MCs introduce themselves over a seriously heavy beat. ‘Wasteland’ is a day in the life of and ‘Tourist Inform
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Check out DJ Shepdog's youtube channel for more mashups and DJ type jugglinz such as Dead Prez vs. Damien Marley and Gorillaz vs. Malente.
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Revitalizing, invigorating, stimulating – nope, not some soap-based beauty product but Dizraeli’s ‘Engurland (City Shanties)’. UK Hip Hop has not seen anything quite like this before.With clear folk influences the album begins with ‘Homeward Bound (On The Overground)’ which lays out all the essentials of what’s to come, only the rapping is missing; seamen’s harmonics, beats, guitar
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Get across to this - not to be missed! Masta Ace and Edo G live in Leeds with support from Verbal Contact (who're making this their 'Literary Vices' EP launch), Alphabetix, J Bravo, Defenders of Style plus DJs Sinical an Prolific. If you get there at 9pm there will be breakdancing battles too - and all for £5 - bargain!
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Dopest female MC right now? Jai. Easy. It’s been out for a little while now but Jai’s ‘On My Jais:The Prelude’ is a great release from a true wordsmith. 14 tracks of Jai all on her own is hardly necessary – one verse on one track is enough for her to prove herself. But, since she’s so skilled you’ll be thankful there are 14 tracks.The beats are real Hip Hop proving that Jai is a rea
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Jelluzz is back with more of his sugary urban pop this time roping in NYC's Ricky Blaze for chorus duties on 'It's My City' and Darren B for 'Just Say Yes'.Strictly made for fans of anyone like Chipmunk (i.e. Grime artists from London who are now on Radio 1, T4 etc) these two tracks are synthy, upbeat and about inane stuff like partying with champagne and getting girls into double beds.Jelluzz...
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Sermstyle's poppy/urban current production style suits Jaycee's R'n'B type singing and with the right push I can imagine Jaycee Payaso having a reasonable go at the pop charts. Apparently Cheryl Cole has already invited him to work with her so who knows?'Everything' is a typical smooshy love song about trying to be the best you can be in a relationship and in its own little way it's quite catc...
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I could write this review with one line: Silvar - not for fans of Hip Hop. I won't just leave it at that though; you need to know why. If I'm not mistaken 'Searching' is produced by Sermstyle who can produce decent Hip Hop beats. Instead for this release someone decided that synthy-dance-mulch based beats would do. It's obvious this is aimed at folk who listen to the radio and go to see X Fact...
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